Probe panel quizzes KIIT founder, others in Nepalese student's suicide case

KIIT founder Achyuta Samanta and other top functionaries of the private engineering college on Friday recorded their statements before a government committee on the alleged suicide of a Nepalese......

Kandhamal riot was pre-planned, say top officials

Appearing before Justice Basudev Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry, two top officials of the state government on Wednesday said that 2007 communal riot in Odisha's Kandhamal district was......

Curfew suspended in Kandhamal

With law and order situation improving in Orissa's riot-scarred Kandhamal district, day curfew was suspended on Monday even as the death toll rose to 16 with the recovery of two bodies. Curfew was......

Orissa: Shoot at sight order in Kandhamal district

Shoot at sight order was issued in many areas of Orissa's Kandhamal district on Wednesday as large number of people defied curfew at several places and indulged in arson, official sources said. "We......